Q-based design equations for resonant metamaterials and experimental validation

Details Q-based design equations for resonant metamaterials and experimental validation Q-based design equations for resonant metamaterials and experimental validation

2007-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0703130v1

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Optics

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Practical design parameters of resonant metamaterials, such as loss tangent, are derived in terms of the quality factor $Q$ of the resonant effective medium permeability or permittivity. Through electromagnetic simulations of loop-based resonant particles, it is also shown that the $Q$ of the effective medium response is essentially equal to the $Q$ of an individual resonant particle. Thus, by measuring the $Q$ of a single fabricated metamaterial particle, the effective permeability or permittivity of a metamaterial can be calculated simply and accurately without requiring complex simulations, fabrication, or measurements. Experimental validation shows that the complex permeability analytically estimated from the measured $Q$ of a single fabricated self-resonant loop agrees with the complex permeability extracted from $S$ parameter measurements of a metamaterial slab to better than 20%. This $Q$ equivalence reduces the design of a metamaterial to meet a given loss constraint to the simpler problem of the design of a resonant particle to meet a specific $Q$ constraint. This analysis also yields simple analytical expressions for estimating the loss tangent of a planar loop magnetic metamaterial due to ohmic losses. It is shown that $\tan \delta \approx 0.001$ is a strong lower bound for magnetic loss tangents for frequencies not too far from 1 GHz. The ohmic loss of the metamaterial varies inversely with the electrical size of the metamaterial particle, indicating that there is a loss penalty for reducing the particle size at a fixed frequency.

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